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SeqWare Portal - Install Guide

Build

The Portal is built and unit tested as with any other SeqWare component, using:

mvn clean install (builds and runs unit tests)

Installation

Requirements

These requirements are based on what I’m using for development. You may be able to use older/newer versions but they may or may not work. You’ll find many of the required jars in the lib directory in svn.

This is what you’ll need to build/run the web applications:

  • apache-tomcat >= 6.0.13
  • Java SE >= 1.6
  • Java EE >= 5
  • postgresql >= 8.1.3
  • PostgreSQL JDBC Driver (postgresql-jdbc3.jar)
  • apache-ant >= 1.7.0
  • hibernate >= 3.2
  • spring-framework >= 2.1

Procedure

If you just want to get a copy installed without compiling, perform the following steps:

  • Download and install apache-tomcat, postgresql and java. Typically this involves using yum or apt-get depending on your Linux distribution. You can also install manually. The steps below assume your apache tomcat install is located in //apache-tomcat-6.0.13/ If you installed via yum/apt-get the location of config/war files may be different and the way you start the server may be different as well.

  • Follow the SeqWare MetaDB install guide to setup your SeqWare MetaDB

  • Copy target/seqware-portal-.war to the apache-tomcat-6.0.13/webapps directory of your tomcat installation

  • In tomcat, create the subdirectory apache-tomcat-6.0.13/conf/Catalina/localhost/

  • Copy target/seqware-portal-.xml to apache-tomcat-6.0.13/conf/Catalina/localhost

  • Copy web/WEB-INF/lib/postgresql-jdbc3.jar to apache-tomcat-6.0.13/lib/

  • Modify apache-tomcat-6.0.13/conf/Catalina/localhost/seqware-portal-.xml to reflect the correct username, password and url for your database.

Starting the Web Service

  • You can now start the server using the apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/startup.sh script and you can stop the server using the shutdown.sh script.

  • Once the service is running you should be able to load http://localhost:8080/seqware-portal-, register an account, and start setting up SeqWare experiments.

  • There is a default admin user setup in the seqware_meta_db. The username is ‘admin@admin.com’ and the password is ‘admin’. Make sure you update this account in the seqware_meta_db before making your SeqWare Portal publicly available.